williamk08′s Blog

the creaking and shifting stirs arousal

covered with dried leaves

the turn of the corner not so secret anymore

secrecy strives to see someone

unaware, prone

just a friendly over the shoulder glance

often high walls surround us

put up by both

by our intentions or by their mind

Sometimes one can find cracks

more times placed intentionally

people want to be asked about, thought about

we can feel as though we’re floating

no anchor to the ground

free to drift wherever, nobody asking questions

float like a ballon, having left

a four year olds

small, young, grasping fingers

reaching higher and higher

wanting their to be no limit

but their is sadly, a limit he did not choose

he wants to shout out to it

tell it to stop

but the voice is stolen by the wind

whipping against all sides

pushed over and beyond

it relinquishes its freedom to an overhanging branch

the long branched and twigs

turned to barbs

gentle caress its sensitive surface

the balloon consists of the boy

its filled with him

he gave life to it in the beginning

but like everything that begins

a middle and an end

POP

I was sitting at my grandparents house last night, eating my grandmother’s famous apple pie with vanilla ice cream, on her old blue corduroy couch, a fire roaring in front of me, and it hit me for the first time. My grandfather was talking about how he was trying to help one of his nephews find a job. He was in the motor industry and had just lost his assistance garage manager position from a Toyota dealership in Hyannis. And I realized just how lucky I was to be going into college rather than coming out of college. Not because I am going to receive  great education, but because there are NO jobs right now. Kids who have majored in banking or business, kids who during any other time would have offered from J.P. Morgan or Goldman Sacks are coming out to nothing. The best of the best, going nowhere right now, because everyone is trying to hold onto their own jobs. One of my mom’s old banking friends, had worked at Washington Mutual for 25 years, just laid off after the company went under. All her pension, retirement was in stocks because no one believed that a bank could literally go under. Now here she is, no retirement fund practically and desperately trying to find work when no one, and i mean no one, is looking to hire. Right now unemployment is at roughly 5-6 percent, some say it might go ask high as double digits!!! I’m really interested to see how this will play in the election. I mean our economy does run the country so I want someone who can come out and show that he has something useful in stock. I don’t want someone who reads off a sheet, written by some professor in a dark room. I want someone who speaks from their own mind. That’s what our country needs right now. Someone who can wright the ship now that it has completely turtled. We should have seen this coming when the DOW hit 14,000 and there was no reason for it to do so. Why had it done this? Why hadn’t we asked why? Hindsight is always 20/20 but in this case we should have seen it coming and stopped it before this whole problem hit. People got greedy and they took what they could get, even if that meant not thinking about the ramifications that might arise. I guess what I’m trying to say is that many of us going to college are a lot luckier than we might think. Cause right now the window of opportunities outside of college is closing for a while.

I wanted to discuss a random topic in the world, I figured most would discuss the economy or the presidential race, so here goes. In this common day and age Pirates aren’t given the attention that they deserve. For centuries Pirates were the most feared force on the ocean, not even mother nature could match their mastery of the seas. People regarded them as the worst of the worst, but they viewed their life as the best of the best. They got to seize ships and lived the high life on the seas. In every picture that I’ve seen of Pirates they are either in the middle of combat or deep into the night and most likely drunk. Recently Pirates have attacked and taken over a Soviet Arms boat that was traveling in the waters off of Somalia. They even now have their equivalent of a captain, their own spokesman. While I do not condone their violence, they are as of now sitting on an arms ship, their captured vessel, and are demanding a 20 million ransom, their booty. It has been four weeks and the negotiations are still at a stand-still. These modern say pirates are more like a corporation, they have a president, a board, and then the cubicle workers. I’m impressed how they have adapted to the progressing modern world. I hope things work out in the end, but the attention that has been drawn to the legendary status of Pirates has been great. 

Prompt: It seemed to cool everything it touched, even the air itself

But the beast was racing against itself…..

Cool down, that heat chilled

The smoke and fire extinguished

Itself ended it

We stood in pouring rain

drip, drop, clash, strike

the storm seemed to be on top of us, not above us

the water pouring endlessly from the tip of the boom

Creating its own waterfall

it was a race, us against the beast of nature

but the beast was racing against itself

propelling us with its own breath

We’ve got the vision, now let’s have some fun

just shock you like you won’t believe

I run it myself like a quarterback option

I’m so bad my shadow chooses not to follow

Quicker than Usain Bolt the fastest thing running

Nah I ain’t pass the bar but I know a little bit

better to light a candle than curse the dark

spanish moss on the welcome sign

she wants to ride the bull at the rodeo

i’ma live where the green grass grows

I’m thinking it’s time to be livin’ the rhyme

Out on the beaches we wore Pinapple grass bracelets

Used to be clear what the looking glass said,

now everythings hazzy baby nothings making sense

I can tie a knot in a cherry stem

I can tell you about Leif Ericson

darkness looking in

images obscured at times

come into plain view

knobs on poles scattered

turned, shadows hide from the light

pushed back, they come out

clink, clank ping ping ping

round the edges it falls out

again again till the end

drooping down low

cutting through the boundaries

all the pieces caught

Here they both come, dressed like thoroughbreds,

Biden’s looking much more well-read

Biden’s got bags under his eyes

Since he’s from the old school its no surprise

The first goes to Biden, all about the Bailout

Palin looking for a mistake, like she’s on a stakeout

He’s saying in his past he can reach across the aisle

Palin can’t even recall her past lookin pretty senile

Biden wants a mix of politicians, possibly a cauldron

Palin likes a maverick, what is this topgun

Enough with the first and on to the next

who wants the sub-prime, both look perplexed

Palin starts already down,

can’t even get her points to crosstown

First we need government protection then we need more regulation

That doesn’t make sense, but maybe if your an Alaskan

We subway into taxes due to the time constraint

I think that by now, Palin wishes she could faint

All he wants is fairness, fairness in taxes

Wants to focus on the middle class like the Aztecs

He hammers it home, we need the middle class

they own this land, like when pioneers trespass

The Middle Class is the engine

Hes pushing them forward, like pirates push a cannon

But now Palin’s coming back during foreign policy

She’s sayin that Barack’s exit strategy is crappy

Biden reassures the crowd that Palin is dead wrong

His points are coming home, like ‘ding-dong’

Suddenly we can see palin on the floor

Can someone please put up a sheet to hide the gore

This whole thing was over from the very beginning

It’s like when a pitcher gets bombed, and taken out in the first inning

When education came around it seemed like deja voiu

Her points were scattered and unclear, unlike an igloo

theres only one answer, it lies in Bloomberg and Romney

then finally America could clear the wake of debris

It’s toward the end and its looking like a landslide

Palin is mostly confused, feeling pretty shanghaied

From what i can tell Biden had her by the head

Im beggin her to stop now and like me go to bed